"Spring is the right time to study, and it is not a good time to be young."
On Saturday, April 23, 2022, the 27th World Book Day was celebrated, and it was also the 6th stop of the Book Selection Tour east of the Forbidden City.
A city is beautiful because of the fragrance of books, reading also allows us to have more courage to face life, World Book Day was officially established in 1995, set as April 23 every year as "World Book and Copyright Day", the purpose is to promote more people to read and write, I hope that everyone can respect and thank the literary, cultural, scientific, and ideological masters who have made great contributions to human civilization, and protect intellectual property rights. Every year on this day, more than 100 countries around the world hold a variety of celebrations and book promotion events.
In this activity, due to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, this book tour activity continued to meet with readers in the cloud and lead readers into the Guotu Bookstore.
Guotu Bookstore, affiliated to the National Library of China, is a borrowing physical bookstore. It is adjacent to Ditan Park and Lama Temple, with an area of more than 800 square meters, with special shelves, open reading areas, cultural and creative areas, water bars, and regularly carries out cultural activities to enrich the reading life of the surrounding masses.
At noon on April 18, the Dongcheng District Library WeChat public account opened online registration, and the book selection information was just released, and some readers successively scanned the code to join the group. The activities are still carried out in the form of WeChat registration, online book selection, online live lectures, and group communication.
After Wang Suhua, an old reader of the Book Xiang Tour, joined the group, he found that the theme of this lecture was "Beijing Dialect", and immediately left a message in the exchange group:
"This lecture is nice and worth listening to. We all know the Beijing flavor novels of Teachers such as Liu Yida and Cui Daiyuan, and then listen to different Beijing flavors and expand their cognition. Especially the interpretation of others will add color to the author's writing. ”
The 30 activity quotas were fully registered in less than two days, and as of noon on the 25th, a total of 18 readers in the group selected 36 books for the library, worth more than 2,000 yuan.
In the post-epidemic era, Dongcheng District Library has actively transformed its own service form by combining online and offline activities. Librarians break the time and space layout, receive and reply to readers' messages online every day, and enter the readers' selected books into the collection system for inquiries, and contact readers again if there is a need for changes. With books as a link, it strengthens the communication and communication between librarians and readers.
The inventory of bookstores is changing every day, and the operators of Guotu Bookstores can successfully borrow books from readers in order to ensure that the books selected by readers can be successfully borrowed from readers. The bookstore operator maintains close contact with the librarian, who pays attention to the information in the group at any time, and the librarian also sends the book order to the other party in a timely manner.
The first national reading conference was held on the eve of this year's World Book Day, and President Xi Jinping sent a letter congratulating the first national reading conference, emphasizing the hope that the whole society will participate in reading and form a strong atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books and reading well. President Xi Jinping's love and obsession with reading has left a deep impression on those around him.
At the Beijing Reading Season Conference just held this year, dongcheng district library "East of the Forbidden City , Book Fragrance Tour" activity, was fortunate to be selected for excellent case sharing, and Wang Xiang, director of the Editorial Department, introduced the self-created brand reader activity of our library " East of the Forbidden City • Book Fragrance Tour".
This news was sent to the book selection exchange group by enthusiastic readers, everyone saw the news, suddenly lively, "we participated in the Dongcheng District Library East of the Forbidden City • Book Fragrance Tour Reader Selection Activity" was selected, to participate in it, it is a great honor, "Read China to understand the world", "4.23 World Book Day ~ change from reading" Readers are excited to leave messages in the group.
At 8:00 a.m. on April 23, The main speaker of "Beijing Dialect", Teacher Fang Zhe, founder of Gulou Renyi and director of the Dongcheng District Folk Writers Association, came to the library early.
When the librarian met Teacher Fang, "The lecture didn't start until ten o'clock, how did you come so early?" "Today is World Book Day, I am so excited to share reading with our readers on such a special day" Teacher Fang Zhe also shared the live lecture activity of "East of the Forbidden City • Book Fragrance Tour" to many friends who love reading.
In the live broadcast room of the library, Mr. Fang Zhe shared with readers his masterpieces such as "Taking the Lamp", "Uprooting", "Fried Liver", "Tsinghua Pool", "Taking the Lamp", "American Brother-in-Law on the Central Axis" and so on.
"I told you 863 times, taking a lamp is not a lamp, it is the meaning of matches, and old Beijingers call matches to take lamps..."
"Chicken Thief", "Beier", "Shadow Wall", "Listen without Ears", "Boiling Eagle", with the playback of Teacher Fang's self-written and self-directed micro-films, these words and phrases that are characteristic of the Beijing dialect are presented to the readers one by one.
Teacher Fang introduced that the micro-video of this live broadcast is a filming compilation album of him and Gulou Renyi about the production of Beijing dialect in the past five years. Teacher Fang wants to convey to everyone through this compilation album that the Beijing dialect is not only a child's pronunciation, but also has its own rules and connotations.
During the live broadcast, readers left messages in the interactive window, "proper childhood memories" and "uprooting!!! When I was a child, I liked it the most, "I missed it", and "interesting", these words reveal the reader's memories of the Beijing dialect in their childhood memories.
In the recommendation session of the good book at the end of the lecture, Mr. Fang Zhe recommended to the readers the book "Beijing Dialect Beijing - Old City, Time and Yin Story" written by Zhang Peng, the host of the "Beijing Daily" client "Jingwei" channel.
Teacher Zhang Peng, who is a media person and a researcher of Beijing's traditional culture, "Beijing Dialect Beijing Rhymes Beijing - Old City, Time and Yin Story" is that he carefully selected 30 Beijing stories that can best reflect the "Beijing fan", and Teacher Fang Zhe introduced this book into four series:
Episode 1, "The Secret Of Beijing", tells the story behind several ancient buildings in Beijing;
The second series, "The Story in the Red Wall", is the "Exploration" of the Forbidden City;
The third series, "Unique 'Beijing Landmarks'", records the ordinary stories that happen in Beijing's old shabu meat restaurant, barber shop, bean juice shop, qu art club, rao shop, and fitness garden;
The fourth series, "The Lonely 'Defenders of the City'", tells the story of an admirable group of ordinary and extraordinary Beijingers.
The book tells it in a regal way, hoping that more people will understand the history and present, monuments and humanities of the ancient city of Beijing, feel the sadness and joy in the depths of the hutong, and the thrill behind ordinary life.
Attached: A small essay written by participating readers
Author: Wang Suhua
As a loyal fan and many participants of the "Journey to The East of the Forbidden City" reader activity, how can you better participate in the online book selection activities? As a reader who has benefited a lot from Guotu, when I learned about this "Book Fragrance Tour East of the Forbidden City" activity and chose to go to Guotu Bookstore, I seriously considered the above questions.
In the past 3 years, I have participated in dozens of times, and each time I have a different harvest. But every time I looked for a bibliography of curiosities, I didn't think about my obligations as a reader of the activity. We thirty lucky readers must not only satisfy our desire to read, but also think about how new readers who have participated in the activities can benefit from the activities.
So after I signed up this time, I didn't rush to choose the bibliography, but seriously thought about it. I'm a literature lover, and I've been obsessed with detective and traversal work lately, so the books I've chosen in the past are basically in both genres. This time, I chose a copy of "The Century Legend of the Forbidden City on Both Sides of the Strait" written by foreigners, because I live in Beijing and have no choice but to go to the crowded Forbidden City. Although it has a history of more than ten flower shells, it has now become a tourist attraction and is no longer a historical relic in memory.
What is rare is that this "Century Legend of the Forbidden City on Both Sides of the Strait" is a book that records the establishment of the Forbidden City, the southward migration of cultural relics, the different development histories of the Forbidden City on both sides of the strait, and the process of mutual exchanges, and the time span is almost a hundred years. Such a book is what we overlooked, that is, the last time we participated in the activities of the Triptych Bookstore, we did not encounter it in the sea of books, fortunately, this time I did not miss it.
I look forward to getting this book as soon as possible, so that the 600-year history of the Forbidden City will come into view again.